Alternative programme: Cryptocurrency and blockchain AML summit
Under the auspices of the AML Training Institute and the Luminous Group, USA
The age of the whistle-blower
Under the auspices of WhistleblowersUK
The New Silk Road One Belt One Road: promoting trade, justice, stability and integrity along the road
(The Fourth Cambridge Conference on China’s One Belt One Road Programme)
Hosted by UK Sichuan Business Association and the China International Law, Finance, Investment Network (CILFIN)
Plenary workshops
Alternative programme: Cryptocurrency and Blockchain AML Summit
Under the auspices of the AML Training Institute and the Luminous Group, USA
Introducing the complexities of Crypto currency and blockchain technology
Co-ordinator: Ms Carol van Cleef, CEO, Luminous Group, Chair, Blockchain and Digital Assets Practice, Bradley Arant Boult and Cummings LLP, Washington DC, USA
Ms Cathy Yoon, General Counsel, INX, USA
Mr Paul Snow, Chief Blockchain Scientist, Inveniam and Founder and CEO, Factom, USA
Mr Ben Whitby, Crypto Regulatory SME, Qredo, London, UK
Ms Amber Scott, CEO, Outlier, Canada
Session 1: The challenges of the technology
Co-ordinator: Ms Carol van Cleef, CEO, Luminous Group, Chair, Blockchain and Digital Assets Practice, Bradley Arant Boult and Cummings LLP, Washington DC, USA
Mr Ben Whitby, Crypto Regulatory SME, Qredo, London, UK
Ms Urszula McCormack, Partner, King and Wood Mallesons, USA
Ms Araba Eshun, Head of Compliance and MLRO, Gemini, UK
Ms Samantha Sheen, Founder and Director, Ex Ante Advisory Limited, UK
Ms Olta Andoni, Chief Legal Officer, Nifty’s Inc and Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law, USA
Ms Denisse Rudich, Founder and Executive Director, Rudich Advisory, UK
Ms Amber Scott, CEO, Outlier, Canada
Session 2: Confronting reality: What can and should be regulated and by whom?
Co-ordinator: Ms Carol van Cleef, CEO, Luminous Group, Chair, Blockchain and Digital Assets Practice, Bradley Arant Boult and Cummings LLP, Washington DC, USA
Ms Simone Martin, Deputy Director, Anguilla Financial Services Commission, Anguilla
Mr Jonathan Blattmachr, Deputy General Counsel, INX Limited and former Chief, Virtual Currency, New York Department of Financial Services, USA
Mr Joseph Borg, Director, Albama Securities Commission, USA
Ms Pamela Clegg, Vice President of Investigations, CipherTrace and formerly International Investigations, US Department of State, USA
Dr Ruth Wandhofer, Chair, Payment System Regulator Panel; CIO, GC Partners; Partner, Gauss Ventures and Member, Board of Advisors, RTGS Limited, UK
Mr Jackson Muller, Director of Policy and Government Relations, Securrency and former Fintech Lead, Milken Institute, USA
Mr Asad Khan, Digital Technology Advisor, BIS Innovation Hub, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China
Ms Urszula McCormack, Partner, King and Wood Mallesons, USA
Session 3: Technology to the rescue?
Co-ordinator: Ms Alma Angotti Partner, Financial Sercies and Practice Co-Leader, Global Investigations,Guidhouse, USA and former Managing Director, Co-Head of Global Investigations, Navigant, Washington DC, US
Mr Dave Jevans, CEO, CipherTrace, USA
Mr Ari Redbord, Head, Legal and Government Affairs, TRM Labs and former Senior Advisor to the Deputy and the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, US Department of Treasury, USA
Ms Mary Beth Buchanan, President, Americas and Global Chief Legal Officer, Merkle Science and former US Attorney, Western District of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr Ruth Wandhofer, Chair, Payment System Regulator Panel; CIO, GC Partners; Partner, Gauss Ventures and Member, Board of Advisors, RTGS Limited, UK
Mr Jackson Muller, Director of Policy and Government Relations, Securrency and former Fintech Lead, Milken Institute, USA
Mr Chen Arad, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Solidus Labs, USA
Ms Tilcia Toledo, Managing Director, FTI Consulting, USA
Session 4: Who is paying and who should pay: Private sector initiatives
Ms Alma Angotti Partner, Financial Sercies and Practice Co-Leader Global Investigations, Guidehouse, USA and former Managing Director, Co-Head of Global Investigations, Navigant, Washington DC, USA
Ms Carol van Cleef, CEO, Luminous Group, Chair, Blockchain and Digital Assets Practice, Bradley Arant Boult and Cummings LLP, Washington DC, USA
Ms Samantha Pelosi, Senior Director, Financial Services, Guidehouse, former Senior Vice President, Payment and Innovation, American Bankers Association and former Manager, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, USA
The age of the whistle-blower
Under the auspices of WhistleblowersUK
Keynote addresses
Chair: Professor Barry Rider, founder, Executive Director and Co-Chairman of the Symposium, Professorial Fellow, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
The Rt Hon Baroness Kramer of Richmond Park PC, Member of the House of Lords, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson and member All Party Parliamentary Group on Banking and former Minister of State Department of Transport, UK
Session 19: Whistleblower protection: Is legislation the answer?
Chair: The Rt Hon Baroness Kramer of Richmond Park PC, Member of the House of Lords, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson and member All Party Parliamentary Group on Banking and former Minister of State Department of Transport, UK
Ms Mary Robinson MP, Member of Parliament and Co-Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group for Whistleblowing, House of Commons, UK
Dr Vigjilenca Abazi, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law and Research Co-ordinator, University of Maastrict, The Netherlands
Mrs Tessa Munt, Chair of WhistleblowersUK and former member of Parliament
Alison Crotch-Harvey, Manager, Grant Thornton UK LLP, UK
Mr Ian Mitchell QC, Tanfield Chambers, London and Chair, Legal Panel, Whistleblowers UK
Ms Lloydette Bai-Marrow, Barrister and former Prosecutor, Serious Fraud Office of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, UK
Dr Wim Vandekerckhove, Reader in Business Ethics, Co-Director, Centre for Research Employment and Work-CREW, Faculty of Business University of Greenwich and Visiting Fellow, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia
The Hon Dr Mohammed Kyari Dikwa, former Permanent Secretary, Special Duties, Federal Ministry of Finance and Accountant General of the Federation, Nigeria
Ms Alexandra Sidossis, Barrister, 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square, London, UK
Mr Simon Reevell, Barrister, St Johns Buildings, London, UK
Mr Simon Clark, Reporter, Wall Street Journal, London, UK
Ms Cynthia Stimpel, Co-Founder of Citizens of Conscience Foundation, former Group Treasurer at South African Airways
Mrs Georgina Halford-Hall, CEO, WhistleblowersUK and Director, Policy and Strategy, All Party Parliamentary Group for Whistleblowing, UK
Session 20: Leaks, tips and whistleblowing - threat or opportunity
Chair: Professor Sir Ivan Lawrence QC, Barrister, Co-Chairman of the Symposium, Professor of Criminal Law, BPP University and the University of Buckingham, former Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, House of Commons, former Recorder of the Crown Court and Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple, UK
Mr Giles Newman, Managing Director, Navex Global, UK
Mr John Banerjee, FX trader and whistleblower, UK
Mr Stephen Kohn, Partner, Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Whistleblower Center, USA
Mr Tom Warren, Investigative reporter, BuzzFeed News, UK
Mr George Patellis, Former CEO, Financial Company, UK
Mrs Georgina Halford-Hall, CEO, WhistleblowersUK and Director, Policy and Strategy, All Party Parliamentary Group for Whistleblowing, UK
Session 21: What is a just expectation for whistleblowers and how can we best achieve it?
Chair: Mrs Georgina Halford-Hall, CEO, WhistleblowersUK and Director, Policy and Strategy, All Party Parliamentary Group for Whistleblowing, UK
Mr Kevin Hollinrake MP, Member of Parliament and Joint Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on Banking, House of Commons, UK
Mr Andy Noble, Head of Whistleblowing, Speak Up and Complaints Policy Compliance and Conduct, NatWest Group, London, UK
Mr Paul Dowling, Partner, International Civil Litigation, Leigh Day Solicitors, London, UK
Mr Paul Milata, Founder, Nemexis, Berlin, Germany
Ms Lindsey Rogerson, Senior Editor, Financial Regulation, Thomson Reuters, UK
Mr Joseph Gulino, Director and Assistant Managing Partner, DRRT, USA
Ms Melanie Devoe, Attorney advisor , Whistleblower Office, CTFC, USA
Mr Rory Field, Presenter and Private Practice Lawyer assisting the WhistleblowersUK legal panel, London UK
Ms Carolyn D’Souza, Barrister at 12KBW Law Firm, London, UK
Session 22: Non-Disclosure Agreements and business ethics; the role of politician, HR, compliance and the legal profession
Chair: Mr Iain Mitchell QC, Tanfield Chambers, London and Chair, Legal Panel, WhistleblowersUK
Ms Alexandra Sidossis, Barrister, 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square, London, UK
Mr Anthony Stansfield, Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner, former Chief of Staff (Intelligence) Far East, British Army and Managing Director, Pilatus Britten Norman, UK
Mr Lacy Rankin Harwell Jr, Office of the United States Attorney, Florida, USA
Mr Jonathan Coad, Founder and Director, Coad Law, UK
Professor Richard Moorhead, Professor of Law and Professional Ethics, University of Exeter, UK
Mr Richard Parlour, Principal, Financial Markets Law International, UK
Ms Mary Inman, Partner , Constantine Cannon LLP, USA
Ms Neta Meidav, CEO & Co-Founder, Vault Platform, London, UK
Mrs Anna Villette, Interim Management Consultant WhistleblowersUK
Closing comments
Mrs Georgina Halford-Hall, CEO, WhistleblowersUK and Director, Policy and Strategy, All Party Parliamentary Group for Whistleblowing, UK
The New Silk Road One Belt One Road: promoting trade, justice, stability and integrity along the road
(The Fourth Cambridge Conference on China’s One Belt One Road Programme)
Hosted by UK Sichuan Business Association and the China International Law, Finance, Investment Network (CILFIN)
Welcome and keynote addresses
Chair: Professor Barry Rider, Professor of Comparative Law, Renmin University, People’s Republic of China; Wenlan Scholar and Professor of Law, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law; Professorial Fellow, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and Co-Chairman of the Symposium; Chair, China International Law, Finance, Investment Network and Chair, Advisory Council, UK Sichuan Business Association, UK
Mrs Mei Sim Lai, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Principal, Laipeters Co, HM Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London, chair of the City Branch of the Institute of Directors and China Interest Group, UK
Mr David Fitzpatrick, Barrister, England and Wales and Hong Kong and former Senior Crown Counsel, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China
Session 1: Resolving disputes along the Silk Road – China’s perspective
Chair: Ms Cecilia Xu Lindsey, Barrister and Arbitrator, 9 Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn, London, UK
Dr Wangwei Lin, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Coventry University, UK
Dr Liang Zhao, Associate Professor in Law, Southampton Law School, University of Southampton, UK
Professor Zhen Jing, Professor of International Trade and Insurance Law, Bangor Law School, Bangor University, UK
Session 2: Legal issues along the Belt and Road Initiative outside of China
Chair: Mr Theodore Huckle QC, Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers and Master of the Bench of Lincoln’s Inn, Visiting Professor of Law, Kings College, University of London and former HM Counsel General for Wales
Dr Siddharth Saxena, Affiliated University Lecturer, Centre for Development Studies and Principal Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Chairperson of the Cambridge Central Asia Forum, Director of Cambridge Kazakhstan Centre and Honorary Secretary of the Committee for Central and Inner Asia and Fellow Commoner, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
Ms Julie Wilson, Managing Partner, Shinewing Wilson and former Partner UHY Hacker Young, UK
Session 3: Can we arbitrate our way out of difficulties?
Chair: Professor Sir William Blair QC, Professor of Financial Law and Ethics, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University London; former Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court, Queens Bench Division of the High Court of England and Wales; Chair of the Bank of England’s Enforcement Decision Making Committee; President, Board of Appeal, European Supervisory Authorities, International Commercial Expert, Supreme Court of the People’s Republic of China and Master of the Bench of Lincoln’s Inn, UK
Professor Lei Chen, Chair of Chinese Law, Law School, Durham University, UK
Mrs Cecilia Xu Lindsey, Barrister and Arbitrator, 9 Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn, London, UK
Dr Michael Reynolds, Solicitor, Researcher and Chartered Arbitrator, Research Fellow, London School of Economics and International Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Programme Leader, BPP University, London, UK
Closing addresses
Chair: Ms Li Hong Xing, Executive President, UK Sichuan Business Association and Principal Lecturer in Chinese Business and Finance Law, BPP University, UK
Dr Oonagh McDonald, International Regulatory Consultant, former Member of Parliament and Principal Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Opposition Spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs, former Director, Financial Services Authority, FSA Ombudsman Scheme and Investors Compensation Scheme, UK
Plenary workshop 33: Criminal spending behaviour and recovering high wealth assets
Chair: Dr Mary Alice Young, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of the West of England, UK
Mr Jonathan Benton, Founder and Director, Intelligent Sanctuary and former Head of UK’s International Corruption Unit, National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Corruption Unit, Metropolitan Police Service, UK
Mr Tim Connolly, Senior Investigation Officer, Offender Management and Enforcement Team, HM Customs and Excise, UK
Mr Sean Mason, Financial Crime Consultant, UK
Plenary workshop 34: Exploring the nexus between illicit financial flows and the offshore world
Chair: Dr Mary Alice Young, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of the West of England, UK
Mr Jonathan Benton, Founder and Director, Intelligent Sanctuary and former Head of UK’s International Corruption Unit, National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Corruption Unit, Metropolitan Police Service, UK
Mr Oliver Bullough, Journalist, The Guardian, UK
Mr Sean Mason, Financial Crime Consultant, UK
Dr Amber Phillips, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of the West of England, UK